Polishing-brush.



190.946,793. PATENTBDMAR. 12, 1997.

J. A. KREAG:

POLISHING BRUSH.

APPLIGATION FILED Nov.25,19o4.

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Be it known that I, JOHN'ADAM KREAG, a citizen ofthe United States, and a resident of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Polishing-Brushes,-

of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to polishing-brushes, and consists'in the combinations hereinafter set forth and claimed.

'In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical cen-- tral section through a brush embodying this invention, and Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a like brush.

This brush consists of three parts-a basesupport or back, preferably of wood, an elastic back or pad next Ito the wood, preferably consistingof felt, and stretched over the felt, a padcover, preferably sheep or lamb skin with the natural wool upon it, Which is yfastened at its ends, and not along its sides,

l to the base or back.

' In the drawings, the base is marked 1 and may have projecting ends 2 and recessed end portions 3 extending across the ends of the base or back 1. The side edges of theback may be grooved, as at 4, Fig. 2, to give a better hold and to improve the appearance of the finished brush. On the bottom` or flat under side 5 of the base or back 1 are fastened a series of layers of felt 6, but a single layer of felt may be employed instead of several. Any

other substance having properties like felt, particularly as to elasticity, may be substituted for it. These layers of felt are fastened along their middle longitudinal line y and near their ends to the base or back'l by means of nails, screws, or tacks 7, which pass through the layer or layers of felt and into the back 14 to an extent sufficient to fasten the felt securely to the back at points Vnear the ends of the brush and also to compress the felt at those points. The side edges of the felt are corrugated, goffered, or fluted, as shown at 8, Fig. 2. The piece of sheep'or lamb skin 9, having upon it the natural wool 10, constitutes the pad-cover and is fastenedl over the felt 6 and has its side edges 11 free by projecting beyond thel fiutings or gofferings 8. The ends 12, Fig. 2, of the skin Specification of Letters Patent. Application ned November 25,1904. seen No'. 234,297.

Patented March 12, 190'?.

are fastened on the ends of the back and in the form shown in the recesses 3 by means of tacks '13. When the strip of skin is fastened in one of the recesses 3 and is then drawn tightly over the feltv and the-other'end of the skin is set 'and fastened in the other recess, the felt is compressed at the ends underneath the skin, so as to roduce rounded ends in the brush. Itis obvlous that the luted or goered edges of the felt'are highly compressible and elastic and that the end ortions 14 of the felt are compressed and ma e approximately solid by means of the compression by the tacks 7 and by the end portions of the skin 9.

The ends of the felt are convenientlyfluted or @Offered like the'sides.

pads, and a pad-cover constituting a brushing-surface, said pads having fluted edges whereby said edges are made more compressible. 4. In a brush, a wooden back having the overhanging end extensions, a plurality of felt pads tacked to the back near its ends, a

pad-cover consisting of a strip of animal skin with its natural covering, said pads being vnarrower than the back and narrower'than the strip and having fluted edges, and fastening devices securing the strip to the backunder the extensions, said natural covering of the strip of skin extending outside of the back, both at its sides and ends.

JOHN 'ADAM KREAG. Witnesses:

D'. GURNEIL L. THON. y 

